1. I tarried by Medina’s fortress-towers for four nights,

    and five more, while a bird sings above them by night.

  2. Then, when our companions had fulfilled every need,

    and a scribe had penned a letter in Medina,

  3. I cinched her saddle and saddlecloth upon her—

    of worn cloth and coarse haircloth—her belly gaunt.

Sol 5.6